Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 4

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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in the city; now in the city, now in heaven, were delighted constantly with its charming young women.
Its king was Kumbha, a pitcher of the nectar of the Ocean of Milk in the form of the Ikṣvāku-family, the abode of Laksmi, like a pitcher of treasure. He alone was the resort of the Śrīs like the ocean of rivers; he was the source of good behavior like Rohana of jewels. Intelligent, he knew both the sciences and weapons; he took toll from the earth and gave it to the unfortunate. He, wise, had a greed for glory but not for wealth; a liberality in money but not in frontiers; a devotion to dharma but not to dice, et cetera.
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His chief-queen was named Prabhāvati, who surpassed the moon in beauty of face, like Saci the queen of Vajrin. She alone was the ornament of the earth and virtue was her ornament; armlets, anklets, et cetera were merely for the sake of formality. Purifying the whole earth by her spotless wifehood, the source of happiness, she shone like a living tirtha. King Kumbha enjoyed pleasures with the queen always fascinating, like the Moon with a Dākṣāyaṇi. 89
Her birth (36-42)
Its life completed, Mahabala's jiva fell from Vaijayanta on the fourth day of the bright half of Phalguna, (the moon) in the constellation Aśvayuj. It descended into Queen Prabhavati's womb, the splendor of an Arhat being indicated by the fourteen dreams. In the third month that it was in the womb, the queen had a pregnancy-whim to sleep on garlands, and it was granted by the gods. At the full time, on the eleventh day of the bright half of Marga in the constellation Aśvayuj, she bore a daughter because of the female-birth karma produced by deceit in a former birth, the marvelous nineteenth Arhat, marked with a water-jar, dark blue in color, with all the favorable
39 35. A lunar mansion,' of which there are 27, considered a daughter of Dakṣa and the wife of the Moon.